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Former AG Mazuz on list of Supreme Court candidates
Another of the non-judges on the list is leading legal scholar Attorney Professor Boaz Sangero, head of the Criminal Law and Criminology Department at the Academic Center of Law and Business in Ramat Gan. Sangero, who received his doctorate from the
Updated: 12/02/2011 04:35A
Responses by Russian MFA Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich to Questions from RBK
And is there a correlation between the type of crime and the country of conviction? Answer: The relationship between an offense and the country in which it was committed is determined by the provisions of the criminal law of a particular state.
Updated: 12/02/2011 04:34A
Customs officers in Jersey may be given more powers
In his proposition, the Home Affairs minister Senator Ian Le Marquand said it would allow them to help their French customs counterparts when drugs seizures are made. The States will debate the draft Criminal Justice International Co-operation law on
Updated: 12/02/2011 04:30A
Comox Valley lawyers decry state of legal aid
Lawyers are also paid a set block rate for some criminal court services. Today's rates are not far off the flat rate of $80 per hour set in 1991. When adjusted for inflation, the current rates amount to a pay cut, the lawyers say.
Updated: 12/02/2011 04:30A
Finding a good balance
The answer is clear: In cases of legal impairment above 0.08, charge people in the criminal courts as before. For cases in the "warning range," use the new policies, which have been very effective in reducing alcohol-related deaths on BC roads.
Updated: 12/02/2011 04:18A
ROGERS: Military justice system needs adjustment
Repeal the rape and sodomy provisions of the UCMJ that concern criminal sexual misconduct. Replace them with a comprehensive Criminal Sexual Conduct Article, such as is found in the Model Penal Code or Title 18 of the United States Code.
Updated: 12/02/2011 04:16A
Scottish Parliament debates Criminal Law and Practice (Carloway Review)
The time had come for the criminal justice process to be reassessed from start to finish. The work of the Thomson committee in the 1970s has dictated Scots criminal procedure for the past 30 years, and I expect Lord Carloway's report to have a similar
Updated: 12/02/2011 03:25A
Program helps developmentally delayed adults
NAMPA — Four years ago, Nampa Police Sgt. Don Peck saw something wrong with the way the criminal justice program treated people with developmental disabilities. Judges often released them on unsupervised probation, so they weren't really held
Updated: 12/02/2011 03:18A
Kenya's chief justice warns government against circumventing court orders
December 1, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Kenyan chief justice on Thursday stepped to the defense of his institution following a high court judge order this week to the government that it arrests Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir should he sets foot in
Updated: 12/02/2011 03:10A
Punitive Laws Blocking Country's Successful HIV/Aids Responses [opinion]
The Ugandan Penal Code still maintains extreme provisions that criminalise acts of a sexual nature against the order of nature like homosexuality. The law also makes prostitution an offence and defines the behaviour in a sweepingly broad manner that
Updated: 12/02/2011 03:03A
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